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Martin E. Beeler

Of Counsel

New York +1 212 841 1023

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    Martin Beeler is resident in our New York office.  His practice focuses on bankruptcy, restructuring, and debtor-creditor rights, and includes both transactional and bankruptcy litigation matters.  His clients have included debtors, creditors, secured and unsecured lenders, debtor-in-possession lenders, creditors’ committees, equity holders, chapter 11 trustees, and indenture trustees on defaulted securities.  Martin also practices in the areas of mergers & acquisitions and secured finance.

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    • Wilmington Trust Company as indenture trustee for $48 billion of bonds issued by Lehman Brothers Holding Inc. and as co-chair of the official creditors' committee in the Lehman Brothers Chapter 11 case.
    • Calyon New York Branch as syndicate agent for senior secured and DIP lenders in the chapter 11 case of Southaven Power, LLC, and in connection with other troubled project financings.
    • Isuzu Motors Company in connection with its North American operations.
    • Wilmington Trust Company, as indenture trustee, as a member of the official committee of unsecured creditors in the FiberMark chapter 11 case.
    • US policyholders opposing solvent schemes of arrangement proposed in the UK by insurers BAIC and WFUM pools.
    • A major retailer, as a vendor endorsee under insurance policies, in contesting the proposed “buy-back” and settlement of the policies by a chapter 11 debtor/primary insured.

    • A major oil & gas company in connection with the spinoff of its chemicals subsidiary. 
    • Swiss Post/Mail Source AG in its acquisition of Forrest Solutions.
    • A minority investor in the recapitalization of WRG Media, Inc., and the disposition of related assets.
    • BNY Capital Partners and The 1818 Mezzanine Fund in the restructuring of Caliber Holdings Corp.
    • A major sports league in connection with the third-party acquisition of a licensee of the league’s intellectual property, and in connection with various team financings.

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  • Credentials
    Education
    • Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, J.D., 2001
        • cum laude
        • Order of the Coif
        • Cardozo Law Review, Editor
    • University of Texas, B.A., 1994
        • with highest honors
        • Phi Beta Kappa
    Bar Admissions
    • New York
    Pro Bono
    • Representation, through Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, of an artist in the bankruptcy of a gallery owner.
    • Advised nonprofit organization committed to the furtherance of Finnish music in the USA regarding governance and exempt-organization matters.
    • Represented amici curiae in National Abortion Federation v. Alberto Gonzales, a challenge to the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, on appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
    Accolades
    • New York Super Lawyers, Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights (2013)

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